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    Hard to Find” she begins her short story with expressing how the grandmother did not want to go to Florida, but instead visit Tennessee. The grandmother tries to make a convincing case to her son Bailey by informing him about a criminal named the “Misfit” that is on the loose and headed to Florida, but no one seems to take her very seriously. The next morning the family piles in the car and heads off to Florida. While on their way to Florida the family stops and eats at a restaurant that is owned

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    Joe is a unique character in the story, Misfits. He has shown aspects of himself like his creativity throughout the book. His creativity is a little too much for something which is one factor that he is part of the gang of five and a misfit. If you go in depth of his character, he isn’t your average Joe, he’s JoDan or Scorpio. He tries to avoid conflict as it is said in p119 “it doesn’t matter” when he heard Addie liked Colin when he also did too. He is considerate, and kind as shown as that page

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    The situation is not mentioned but the other two unruly figures harnessing weapons, one can only conclude one outcome. The Misfit stays and talks to the grandmother and Bailey’s wife. The grandmother at this point has been pleading for them all, constantly saying to the Misfit, “I know you’re a good man.” The Misfit kind of chuckles and brushes it off he tells her of growing up and things that occurred. How he was a good boy but even his father told him that something

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    The Misfits is based on the premises that bullying is still here, and it is the story of how four friends overcome prejudice to touch the hearts of many. The Outsiders is a tad less tear-jerking and heartwarming, but it is about how the Greasers managed to break

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    between good and evil. The grandmother and the Misfit are the two main characters. The grandmother is an example of good, and the Misfit is an example of evil. Throughout the story, the grandmother shows her love, passion, and caring attitude. The grandmother loves her family but she has some manipulative ways, as she seizes at every chance she gets to change Bailey’s mind about driving to East Tennessee. It is evident throughout the story that the Misfit is a murderer and shows no sympathy for the

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    Comparing The Misfit Vs Arnold Friend In the two short stories “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O'Connor and "Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, there are many similarities in the characters ‘Misfit’ and Arnold Friend; although they aren’t clear at the beginning they become clearer after analyzing. For instance, they are both charming and know how to talk to their prey and get what they want. We see this in A Good Man is Hard to Find with the Misfit, he stays calm

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    Lennie Small: Misfit Lennie Small a character from of Mice and Men falls in the misfit archetype because of his disability and the time period the book is set in. Lennie’s mental disability in conjunction with his strength means he obviously needs constant supervision. Lennie is cited over and over again hurting things. Even if he doesn’t think about it he takes and kills countless animals in the book. In the first scene when we are introduced to Lennie he’s said to have killed the mouse

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    Is Holden Claufield a misfit in societyI do think that Holden Claufield is a misfit in society. It doesn’t seem like that is society fault that he is, its just the type of person that he is. He describes everyone around him as them being a phony as he likes to describe it. The way Holden cant fit into the society around has drove him to hate it, instead of him coming to realize this he just judges other people on the fakeness and dishonesty. Holden even thinks that his own school is hypocritical

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    against hate. They have all been fighting against the fact that they need to bring down the Robert E. Lee statue. There has been research and interviews by Steve Chapman that state that the people are refusing to be apart of this ruling race. Modern misfits will take matters into their own hands even if it means that they need to resort to intimidation in order for this to be fixed. Steve Chapman has looked into different matters or situations like the article below that states that black lives matter

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    Is it society or is he just a misfit? In the book catcher in the rye a 16 year old kid named Holden finds himself to get into tough situations sometimes. Holden seems to look at his problems in the worst ways and never tries to solve them in good ways. When i would read this book i would never think Holden was great kid, for example, When Holden was in pency prep he was failing all of his classes. Holden didn’t fit in at pency prep. Holden is always talking about how he doesn’t fit in at his school

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